RFC: include a cabal-install executable in future GHC releases

[Simon Marlow]

On 21/01/2014 08:42, harry wrote:
> Agreed. The significant barrier here isn't that cabal-install isn't delivered
> with GHC (that's HP's job), it's that there isn't a pre-build binary for
> linux at all, and that the binaries aren't linked to from the GHC download
> site.

Your Linux distro already provides a cabal-install that will work with 
the latest GHC, just "apt-get install cabal" or equivalent, then "cabal 
install cabal-install" to update it if necessary.

Cheers,
Simon